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Books Reviewed in Studies in Intelligence 2012

Current Topics
Most reviews can be reached at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/center-for-thestudy-of-intelligence/index.html Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11 by Athan G. Theoharis (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) America The Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare by Joel Brenner (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Counterstrike: The Untold Story of Americas Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today by Edward Lucas (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) The Emergency State: Americas Pursuit of Absolute Security at all Costs by David C. Unger (56 4 [December], Samuel Cooper-Wall Hunting in The Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qaida Since 9/11 by Seth G. Jones (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Acquisitions, Policies and Defense Oversight by Johanna A. Montgomery (ed.) (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability by Hans Born, Ian Leigh, and Aidan Wills (eds.) (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam by J. M. Berger (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs by William J. Lahneman (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaedas American Recruits by Catherine Herridge (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Open Source Intelligence in a Networked World by Anthony Olcott (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin (56 1 [March], Bookshelf)

General
The Art and Science of Intelligence Analysis by Julian Richards (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action by Sarah Beebe and Randolph Pherson (56 4 [December 2012], Jason Manosevitz The CIA on Campus: Essays on Academic Freedom and the National Security State by Philip Zwerling (ed.) (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems by J. Richard Hackman (56 1 [March], Bookshelf)

Following book titles and author names are the Studies in Intelligence issue in which the review appeared and the name of the reviewer. All Bookshelf reviews are by Hayden Peake.

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The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English by Joseph C. Goulden (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community by Amy B. Zegart (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence by Joshua Rovner (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the Gap Between Scholarship and Practice by Stephen Marrin (564 [December 2012], Jason Manosevitz Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations by National Research Council (56 4 [December 2012], Jason Manosevitz Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States: A Comparative Perspective, Volumes 1 and 2, by Philip H. J. Davies (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis by Patrick F. Walsh (56 2 [June], Bookshelf)

Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Fifth Edition) by Mark M. Lowenthal (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies; An Anthology (3rd edition) by Loch Johnson and James J. Wirtz (eds.) (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence by Hamilton Bean (56 1 [March], Anthony Olcott) Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security by Thomas Fingar (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) The Secret Book of CIA Humor by Ed Mickolus (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) The Secrets of the FBI by Ronald Kessler (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (56 2 [June], Frank Babetski) Words of Intelligence: An Intelligence Professionals Lexicon for Domestic and Foreign Threats (2nd edition) by Jan Goldman (56 1 [March], Bookshelf)

Historical
Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of MACVSOG by Robert M. Gillespie (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East by Andr Gerolymatos (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine by Brian Latell (56 3 [September], Thomas Coffey) The CIAs Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub by David H. Sharp (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece by Susan Heuck Allen (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Dealing With the Devil: Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During the Second World War by Dnal OSullivan (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations by Richard C.S. Trahair and Robert L. Miller (56 4 [December], Bookshelf)

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Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial by Scott Martelle (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Franco's Friends: How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco To Power In Spain by Peter Day (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Gentleman Spymaster: How Lt. Col. Tommy 'Tar' Robertson Double-crossed the Nazis by Geoffrey Elliott (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Historical Dictionary of Atomic Espionage by Glenmore Trenear-Harvey (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China by Eric Enno Tamm (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War by Joshua Kurlantzick (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Ian Flemings Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit by Nicholas Rankin (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson, with a foreword by RAdm. Donald Mac Showers, USN (Ret.) (56 3 [September], Bookshelf)

Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Richard Minter (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague by Igor Lukes (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation that Saved D-DAY by Joshua Levine (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Project AZORIAN: The CIA and the Raising of the K129 by Norman Polmar and Michael White (56 1 [March], David Robarge) Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground by Thomas Sakmyster (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Saddam Husseins Bath Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime by Joseph Sassoon (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) The Shah by Abbas Milani (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution by John A. Nagy (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II by Taylor Downing (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen (56 2 [June], Bookshelf)

Memoir
The Art of Intelligence by Henry A. Crumpton [June], Hayden Peake The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan with Daniel Freedman (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Black Man in the CIA: An Autobiography by Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA by Richard L. Holm (56 1 [March], Bookshelf)

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Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose Rodriquez (56 4 [June], Hayden Peake) The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn Carle (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter Bandit Fighter and Spy by Boris Hembry (56 3 [September], Bookshelf)

My Twenty Years as a CIA Officer: Its All About the Mission by Steven Ruth (56 2 [June], Hayden Peake) The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon: An Intelligence Officers Memoir, 19721973 (56 2 [June], Hayden Peake) The Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow by Martha Peterson (56 2 [June], Hayden Peake)

Intelligence Abroad
The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera (56 1 [March], Bookshelf) FAREWELL: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Global Secret Service and Intelligence Service I: Hidden Systems That Deliver Unforgettable Customer Service by Heinz Duthel (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt by James J. Schneider (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence by I.C. Smith and Nigel West (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) and (56 3 [December], Peter Mattis.) Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence by Amos Gilboa and Ephraim Lapid (eds.) (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) KLO ui Hangukchon Pisa [Secret History of the KLO in the Korean War] by Yi Chang-gon (56 1 [March], Stephen C. Mercado) Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History by Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman (eds.) (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Locating Indias Intelligence Agencies in a Democratic Framework by Danish Sheikh (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) Main Intelligence Outfits of Pakistan by P.C. Joshi (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britain's Counterinsurgency Failure by J.B.E. Hittle (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) The Politics of Counterterrorism in India: Strategic Intelligence and National Security in South Asia by Prem Mahadevan (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Secret Intelligence ServiceMI6: Codename MNL DCVR, by Heinz Duthel (56 4 [December], Bookshelf) SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon; Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII by Vadim Birstein (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service (56 2 [June], Bookshelf) Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage by David Levy (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Stasi Decorations and Memorabilia: Volume II by Ralph Pickard, with a foreword by Ambassador Hugh Montgomery (56 3 [September], Bookshelf) Strategic Intelligence in the Wider Black Sea Area by George Cristian Maior and Sergei Konoplyov (eds.) (56 4 [December], Bookshelf)

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Fiction
An American Spy, The Tourist, and The Nearest Exit all by Olen Steinhauer (56 4 [December], John Ehrman) Bloodmoney by David Ignatius (56 1 [March], Michael Bradford) The Orphan Masters Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson (56 2 [June], John Ehrman) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John LeCarre, the movie (56 3 [September], Michael Bradford and James Burridge)

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